Foreign Affairs, Drinks, & Other Ill-Advised Adventures

In honor of Harper Lee's birthday we discuss the lost art of leaving well enough alone, walking away on top, and a peaceful retirement.

A sober discussion about the preservation of small Southern towns in the wake of the tornado that tore through Faunsdale, Alabama.

Do you still watch the Oscars?The Tony's, Grammy's. If so, why?

Do robots mean a laborless utopia or the world becoming the Terminator franchise? C3PO or R2D2? Or the sex-bot from the Finlandia vodka ads?

Forgot to shred that cunning and devious plan? Sentiments to an old flame? A promise you had no intention of keeping?

Vaccines! No, not Covid. If you could inoculate yourself against anything, what would it be?

Any activity that, by design, makes you take leave of your senses needs to have some established, external ground rules.

A wine snob, a liquor snob and a beer snob walk into a bar... who sends you screaming to the bathroom?

Hemingway and Fitzgerald celebrated booze in their work. Was it the muse or the demon that cratered their talent?

Beer has evolved for thousands of years. For American beer drinkers, most of it in the last 30 years.

On the podcast we discuss the book, it's evolution, Bob Newhart's eyes, essays that shouldn't get published and how drinking got hardwired i

The holidays are here. Gatherings means food, and that means wine. Maybe something thing stronger, you know how families can be.

On the Podcast we discuss the inspiration for new cocktails along with some bloody failures.

Was there a single snort that made you reassess your bar? Sent you down a rabbit hole? Infuriated your spouse?

The grill and beer. The grill without beer...?

On the Podcast: James Bond had a liver too large for one drink.

In which the Negroni, the worlds No. 2 cocktail explains itself

Possibly the first booze, and a favorite of Beowulf... but how does it taste?

Two great bottles - Blue Note Straight Bourbon & Uncle Nearest Tennessee Whiskey. And a great story.

Timelessness isn't always a good thing.